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The Methodology Justification Worksheet
Prompts that push you from describing your methods to defending why they were the right choice — built for committee questioning, not just narration.
Underneath every methods question in a defense is really one question: why should I trust this choice over the alternatives you didn't take?
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Sample40 graduate students at one institution
Becausethe research question is about program-specific experience, not population-wide prevalence
Who it's for: Anyone whose methods chapter currently reads like a procedure manual instead of an argument.
What's inside
- A prompt set for turning "here's what I did" into "here's why this was the right choice"
- Space to pre-empt the obvious methodological pushback before your committee raises it
- A short checklist for making sure your methods actually match your research question
More from the ledger
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The "because" test? Add a clause starting with "because" to every methodological choice. Can't finish it? Not justified yet.
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Does naming a limitation hurt me? No — leaving out why it doesn't undermine your conclusions is the actual weakness.
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Pro version ($17)? Full method inventory, real alternative comparison, prepared answers to the 5 questions committees ask most.
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